Monthly Archives: July 2009

A few years ago a friend who repatriates British art saw this painting hanging on my living room wall. “That’s 25,000,” she said. “What’s 25,000?” I asked. “The Cooper cows,” she replied. “25,000 dollars?” I croaked. “No, 25,000 pounds!” But when we looked more closely, where we expected to see Thomas Sydney Cooper’s signature, we… Read More »